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Michel Eugène Chevreul
Michel Eugène Chevreul was a French chemist whose work contributed to significant developments in science, medicine, and art. Chevreul's early work with animal fats revolutionized soap and candle manufacturing and led to his isolation of the heptadecanoic (margaric), stearic, and oleic fatty acids. In the process, Chevreul became the first scientist to define the concept of a chemical compound and…
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culture · French chemist (1786–1889) · chemist · physicist · painter · also Michel Eugène Chevreul, Michel-Eugène Chevreul, Michel Eugene Chevreul, Michel-Eugene Chevreul, Michel Eugene Chever, Chevreul
Born 31 August 1786 · Died 9 April 1889 · Q271651
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2025· 2 entries
Nature: Institut Michel Eugène Chevreul (IMMCL Chevreul)
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2021· 1 entry
Ouest-France: Le panthéon de l’Anjou. Michel-Eugène Chevreul, celui qui classa la couleur…
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2020· 2 entries
Yahoo Style UK: The Father of Complementary Colours: Michel Eugène Chevreul
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ActuaLitté: Michel-Eugène Chevreul, 1786-1886
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1901· 1 entry
A statue was erected to his memory in the museum with which he was connected for so many years
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1889· 1 entry
Died 1889-04-09.
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1886· 1 entry
And it was celebrated as a national event
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1875· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (1875).
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1873· 1 entry
Won Albert Medal (1873).
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1867· 1 entry
Career landmark: president of the French Academy of Sciences (1867–1867).
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1863· 1 entry
Career landmark: director of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (1863–1879).
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1857· 1 entry
Won Copley Medal (1857).
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1839· 3 entries
Intending to form a comprehensive theory for all the visual arts
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Published the results of his research under the title De la loi du contraste simultané des couleurs; It was translated into English and published in 1854 under the title The Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Color
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Career landmark: president of the French Academy of Sciences (1839–1839).
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1833· 1 entry
And his 1854 paper "De la baguette", Chevreul explains how human muscular reactions, totally involuntary and subconscious, are responsible for seemingly magical movements
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1830· 1 entry
And thirty-three years later assumed its directorship also; this he relinquished in 1879, though he still retained his professorship
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1829· 1 entry
Was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1868
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1826· 2 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1826).
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Chevreul became a member of the Academy of Sciences, and in the same year was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society of London, whose Copley Medal he was awarded in 1857
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1824· 1 entry
Chevreul was named director of the dye works at the Gobelins Manufactory in Paris, in response to complaints about technical inadequacies
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1823· 1 entry
(Recherches sur les corps gras d'origine animale)
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1813· 1 entry
Chevreul was appointed professor of chemistry at the Lycée Charlemagne, and subsequently undertook the directorship of the Gobelins tapestry works, where he carried out his research on colour contrasts
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1786· 1 entry
Born 1786-08-31.
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